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...Hall and Princeton, N.J.; Nicholas Gagarin '70 of Quincy House and Litchfield, Conn.; Sophie A. Krasik '70 of Comstock Hall and Pittsburgh, Pa.; Elizabeth P. Nadas '69 of Eliot Hall and Wellesley; Mark R. Rasmuson '70 of Winthrop House and Salt Lake City, Utah; Sandra E. Ravich '70 of Barnard Hall and Winthrop; Adele M. Rosen '70 of 58 Linnaean St. and Great Neck, N.Y.; and Thomas P. Southwick '71 of Weld Hall and Chevy Chase, Md., to the News Board; of Jack D. Burke Jr. '70 of Leverett House and Richmond, Va.; Salahuddin I. Imam '70 of Dunster House...
What's more, Barnard disclosed, this heart had been working so poorly that for weeks Washkansky's other organs -notably the liver and even the brain -had shown signs of deterioration from shortage of blood and oxygen. After Washkansky received Denise Darvall's heart, these organs improved enormously. One thing that his 30-man team learned from Washkansky's case, said Barnard, is that the recipient's body is less prone to reject a heart transplant than a kidney, so future patients will not be so heavily dosed with drugs to suppress the immune reaction...
...adults in the U.S. dying each year of coronary disease and 6,000 to 7,000 children dying of incurable inborn heart defects, there is no prospect of more than a few thousand hearts becoming available. The pressing question, therefore, is how will these be allocated? Dr. Barnard was not worried by the chance of having two or more patients at one time with equal need. He was confident that one would have the more urgent need for a new heart, and he would get it. If forced to choose between a psychotic who could never be a really useful...
Three Criteria. Surgeon Barnard was equally confident that the time of a prospective donor's death can be determined clearly enough to indicate when his heart may be taken, although the subject is technically complex. Under South African law, he said, a patient is dead when he has no reflexes, is no longer breathing, and his heart has stopped. The Groote SchuUr Hospital team faithfully applied these criteria in the case of Donor Denise Darvall. Certainly, said Barnard, he could have restarted her heart, but it would soon have stopped again because her brain was dead...
...supply of hearts for transplantation will increase, Barnard predicted, when the public has been sufficiently educated so that relatives will give the necessary consent when someone has suffered a fatal injury. Christiaan Barnard's television appearances were calculated to win just such broader public acceptance of an idea that would have been greeted with universal horror only a month earlier...